NDLI: Epistemic Informational Structural Realism

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Author	Beni, Majid Davoody
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The paper surveys Floridi’s attempt for laying down informational structural realism (ISR). After considering a number of reactions to the pars destruens of Floridi’s attack on the digital ontology, I show that Floridi’s enterprise for enriching the ISR by borrowing elements from the ontic form of structural realism (in the pars construens) is blighted by a haunting inconsistency. ISR has been originally developed by Floridi as a restricted and level dependent form of structural realism which remains mainly bonded within the borders of a Kantian perspective. I argue that this perspective doesn’t mesh nicely with the ontic interpretation that Floridi attached to the ISR. I substantiate this claim through the assessment of Floridi’s strategy for reconciling the epistemic and ontic forms of the SR, as well as by close examination of his use of method of levels of abstraction and his notion of semantic information. My proposal is that the ISR could be defended best against the mentioned and similar objections by being interpreted as an extension of the epistemic SR.
Starting Page	323
Ending Page	339
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09246495
Journal	Minds and Machines
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728641
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-10-14
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Information Informational structural realism Floridi Epistemic structural realism Ontic structural realism Levels of abstraction Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Philosophy of Mind Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Cognitive Psychology Philosophy of Science Theory of Computation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Artificial Intelligence

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